MORAL AND SOCIAL REFORMS
The Law of the Lord which will then go forth from Mount Zion, the Kingdom, and be promulgated to all the people from Jerusalem, the world's New Capital, as the Word of the Lord by his "princes," will at once take hold of what are already recognized as "crying evils." Moral reforms will be instituted along all lines; financial, social and religious questions will all be recast in harmony with both Justice and Love. Judgment will be laid to the line, and righteousness to the plummet (Isa. 28:17); all of earth's affairs will be squared and plumbed with righteousness – and will be brought into strict conformity thereto.
How much this will signify as regards the suppression of all lines of business which tempt humanity by alluring and seducing through the weaknesses of their fallen natures and the unbalance of mental and moral qualities! The distillery, the brewery, the saloon, the brothel, the poolroom, all time-killing and character-depraving businesses will be stopped; and their servants will be given something to do that will be beneficial to themselves and others.
Similarly, the building of war-vessels, the manufacture of munitions of war and defense will cease, and armies will be disbanded. ...more

IMPORTANCE OF THE KINGDOM
The most momentous event of earth's history is the establishment of God's Kingdom among men, in the hands of our Lord Jesus and his selected joint-heirs, the overcomers of the Gospel Church. This great event, toward which all of God's promises and types point, we now see to be not only at hand, but just upon us. None of those awake to these facts, and who properly or even partially realize them, and whose hearts are in full sympathy with God's great plan of the ages, and who see that God's panacea for the sin and misery and dying of the groaning creation is to be applied by this Kingdom, can possibly feel other than an absorbing interest in the fact, the time and the manner of its establishment.
CLASSES OF MEN INTERESTED IN IT
All who trust implicitly for the fulfilment of the prayer our Lord himself taught us to offer – "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven" – must feel the liveliest interest in the fulfilment of their request, if they prayed from the heart – in spirit and in truth. We can see that even the world, ...more

ETERNAL WISDOM
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made."
John 1:1-3
The name the Word (gr. Logos) does not relate to our Lord personal nature, but his office. He was the Word as the spiritual being in his pre-human existence, when He was the Great Prince, Michael the archangel (Michael means: Who as God). Jude 9; Dan. 12:1.
"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us"
John 1:14
The One, who was the Word, spoke words put in his mouth by the Father (Deut. 18:18). They were the words of life, hence He also is named the Word of Life (John 12:49; 1 John 1:1).
This Word was rejected by the Israeli nation except few Israelites indeed. When the Lord resurrected, he received the higher nature from the one, which he possessed before he became the man. In so exalted state he has several names, among others, the Word of God (Rev. 19:13), because he is still chief performer of God's plans.
THE ETERNAL LOGOS – THE ETERNAL WISDOM
Prov. ...more

"ALL THINGS MUST NEEDS BE FULFILLED, WHICH ARE WRITTEN
IN THE LAW OF MOSES, AND THE PROPHETS, AND THE PSALMS, CONCERNING ME"
Luke 24:44
Since the second century of the pre-Christian era the Jews divided their holy books on three parts: (1) Moses' law (Torah), (2) prophets (Nebiim), (3) other books (Ketubim). From this third part, Jesus put Psalms first, in which there are numerous mentions about his torments.
The Lord Jesus expressed words quoted on the title after his resurrection, when He appeared eleventh time to his disciples. The following considerations will be devoted special words from the David's psalm, which our Lord with the great voice expressed on the cross just before his decease:
"Into thy hands I commend my spirit"
Ps. 31:6; Luke 23:46
"This was the prophetic declaration of our Lord Jesus' dying words. He had received the spirit of life from the Father as a gift: he had, in obedience to the Father's plan, become a man to be man's Redeemer: and when yielding up his spirit of life or vital energy, he declared his reliance upon God's promise to give the spirit of life again, by a resurrection." E315
"With full confidence our dear Redeemer looked up to the Father, and full ...more

THE BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY IS THE VOICE OF THE INVISIBLE LORD
– IT SHOWED THE DATE OF HIS SECOND PRESENCE
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Number 1874 reached as the numerical value of words "my voice" can have additional meaning, namely as the quantity of years being counted from the apostle John vision. 1874 years counted forward from 95 A.D. (the time of the vision) they point out year 1969:
95 + 1874 = 1969
The thought about number 1874 hidden in the words "my voice" in Greek it has been expressed first time on 3 August 1969 during lecture on the subject of the Lord's second presence. This took place on the convention in house of prayer of Baptists Christians in Poland, in Lodz, Alexander's street 7.
"My voice" is the voice of the Lord, who knocked twice to the door of hearts of His disciples waiting for Him in seventh period of the Church – Laodicea. The beginning of this period is also the beginning of Christ's second presence – the year 1874.
It seems clear, that numerical value of expression, "my voice" = 1874, not only confirms accuracy of the earlier understanding of the date of the beginning of Christ's second presence but also it points out ...more

THE MANNER OF OUR LORD'S RETURN
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief"
2 Pet. 3:10
"For the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven, with a shout,
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God..."
1 Thess. 4:16
"This Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven
shall so come in like manner as ye beheld him going into heaven."
Acts 1:11
"Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye
shall see him, and they that pierced him..."
Rev. 1:7
The records of the Scriptures relating to the manner of the second coming of our Lord are not easy to the understanding for ordinary reader, because their main thoughts are as if somehow contradictory with themselves.
Some of them say that the Christ will come as the thief – silently, secretly. Meanwhile others are presenting His coming as the great manifestation – accompanied by innumerable angelic hosts, with the sounds of the great trumpet – in the way through the whole world noticed (Rev. 1:7; 16:15; Matt. 24:31).
The words of two angels, who showed up to disciples just after the Lord's ascending into heaven, they are in this matter also very characteristic. These angels stated to them namely, that the same Jesus will come ...more

The book "Eternal Wisdom" (1994). Comments and compositions of biblical numerology to Daniel's book:
THE 60-CUBIT HIGH IMAGE, WHICH THE KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR SET UP
AND THE GREAT FEAST, WHICH THE KING BELSHAZZAR MADE,
THEY HAVE THE SAME MEANING
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THE MYSTERIOUS AND DANGEROUS SMALL HORN
Dan. 7:8
God showed to prophet Daniel in the dream the four wild, fantastic shaped beasts, to illustrate to him the universal rules of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. On the head of last, ten-horned, the most dangerous beast (representing Imperial Rome), among its ten horns different a little horn grew up, before which three of them had been broken off. This horn represents the religious power of the apostate Roman Catholic church, which union with the kings of this world formed so-called Papacy (Matt. 4:8-10).
This power dates from 539, when, in the result of the emperor Justinian edict and conquest by his armies the Ostrogoths (third "horn," after Western Empire and Heruli) pope has become the actual the master of Rome.
The Lord's Apostles from the very beginning warned believers against the coming into being system, because they noticed already the desire of the power in some leaders among God's people. The apostle Paul calls it the ...more

GOD'S GREAT SUPPER FOR BIRDS
The prophet Daniel, by one of his visions was familiarized with Divine view of universal empires' rules which had wielded the world during so-called the Times of the Gentiles (606 B.C. to 1914 A.D.). In a dream he saw a four amazing beasts, which were emerging from the sea. All of them filled with fear, but at the sight of fourth prophet was overcame with terror. Describing the three first beasts, he compared them to wild animals, lion, bear and the leopard. Fourth beast seemed to him to be the really devilish creature, because he did not find in it the similarity to none of animals created by God; such horrendous was the very sight and the horrendous power, with which this beast devoured and crushed all round.
The rule of Rome came after relatively moderate rules of Babylon, Medo-Persia and Greece. This universal empire, first pagan and later papal, it outran in bestial cruelty and the length of duration of all the previous powers. Until the time of converting to Christianity, the title Pontifex Maximus (the highest priest) belonged to Caesars. They called themselves a gods representatives and their deputies on the earth. Since the papacy ...more

THE END OF THE SECOND AND THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD "WOE"
"And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell; and there were killed in the earthquake seven thousand persons [literally: names]: and the rest were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven." (Rev. 11:13).
"The great earthquake" pictured in the vision was fulfilled as so-called "Polish revolution" – the wave of working-class strikes in August 1980 in Poland.
The fall of "the tenth part of the city" as the result of the earthquake represents the fall of the People's Republic of Poland (PRL), one of ten nations, which had united in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON).
Expression "people's names" of verse 11:13 is correct translation of Greek words "onomata anthrwpwn." In "the Polish revolution" had been destroyed names, that is took place the loss of good name of many persons holding a government positions. Their standing completely collapsed, when it turned out that they were stained the appropriation of public property.
The next words "and the rest were affrighted," they relate to a transgressors of the same class in the remaining nine countries of the COMECON.
The expression "and gave glory to ...more

THE THIRD WOE
"The second Woe is past: behold, the third Woe cometh quickly. And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become [the kingdom] of out Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever." (Rev. 11:14, 15).
The prayers of God's people, since centuries longing for deliverance from the conditions of sin and death, were heard. The process of anarchy, increasing all over the world, it overthrows at last the kingdom of "god of this world," Satan, and opens before all people of goodwill an era of eternal happiness in God's Kingdom on the earth. Our Lord named the violent taking over a power the great tribulation, because it is connected with great discontent, annoyances and calamities of people. This is however the indispensable preparation of human hearts for the period of the Christ reign in which obedience to rules of justice and love will be demanded.
"My determination is to gather the nations [indignant peoples on one side], that I may assemble the kingdoms [governments being endangered with anarchy on the other side; with their kings political, ecclesiastical, financial etc.], to pour upon ...more

WOE, WOE, WOE
"And I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, for them that dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, who are yet to sound." (Rev. 8:13).
God's people, against a background of occurring historical events aiming to a critical moment inevitably, they fulfilled their mission as the long-sighted "eagle," flying in the middle of the ecclesiastical heaven. (Luke 17:37). This mission, intensified particularly in the last several years before first world war, it announced the approaching the end of the Times of Gentiles, and coming three "woes" – war, revolution and anarchy. (1 Kgs. 19:11,12). Immediately after this event there had to come longed-for Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
Briefly after the outbreak of the First World War the New York newspaper "The World" reported (August 30, 1914):
"The outbreak of the horrible war in Europe has fulfilled unusual prophecy. During the last quarter of a century the International Bible Students Association, more known as the people of 'Millennial Dawn,' had announced the world by their preachers' mouth and by printed matters, that in year 1914 would begin long ago prophesied ...more

THE BLOWING THE TRUMPET SEVEN ANGELS
"And the seven angels that had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound." (Rev. 8:6).
Blowing the trumpet seven angels represents the development of the revolutionary movement – the bolshevism (Rev. 8:2). Four first of blowing the trumpet portray organization, planning, manifestation and the growth of the revolutionary movement. It was the preparation of the revolutionary masses with the propaganda of four Congresses of the RSDLP to attack on the bastions of Christianity as soon as the Times of the Pagans are expired (1914). Three remaining of blowing the trumpet – woes, they concern to the three phases of the fall of Christianity in war, revolution and anarchy as the the result of the farther advancing of the revolutionary movement. (Rev. 8:12, 13).
Before the outbreak of the First World War (the first "woe") the five congresses of the RSDLP took place (abbreviation for: Social democratic Party Workers of Russia).
One should count blowing the trumpet seven angels from second, and not from first Congress RSDLP. Why? Because of this that the bolshevism – the militant party of working class pictured in Samson – it has been born during the Second Congress.
The Second Congress of the RSDLP had ...more

SAMSON
The prayers of all the saints have been heard
There we learn that the plan of God, with reference to man, spans three great periods of time, beginning with man's creation and reaching into the illimitable future. Peter and Paul designate these periods "three worlds."
The first, from creation to the flood, was under the ministration of angels, and is called by Peter "The world which was." (2 Pet. 3:6). The second great epoch, from the flood to the establishment of the kingdom of God, is under the limited control of Satan, "the prince of this world," and is therefore called "This present evil world." (Gal. 1:4; 2 Pet. 3:7).
The third is to be a "world without end" (Isa. 45:17) under divine administration, the kingdom of God, and is called "The world to come – wherein dwelleth righteousness." (Heb. 2:5; 2 Pet. 3:13).
The first of these periods, or "worlds," under the ministration of angels, was a failure; the second, under the rule of Satan, the usurper, has been indeed an "evil world"; but the third will be an era of righteousness and of blessing to all the families of the earth.
The present, or second period, is called "the present evil world," not ...more

BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST
Daniel 5
Belshazzar makes feast
(1) Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. (2) Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink therefrom. (3) Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them. (4) They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Mistery writing on the wall
(5) In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. (6) Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. (7) ...more

THE GOLDEN IMAGE IN THE PLAIN OF DURA
Daniel 3
The king Nebuchadnezzar sets up golden image
(1) Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
(2) Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. (3) Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
(4) Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, (5) that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up; (6) and whoso falleth ...more

Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (great image)
Daniel 2
(2:1) And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him. (2) Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the enchanters, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. (3) And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream. (4) Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation. (5) The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. (6) But if ye show the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream and the interpretation thereof. (7) They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, ...more

SAMSON’S HISTORY
The prediction of the birth
(13:1) And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah; and Jehovah delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
(2) And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. (3) And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not; but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. (4) Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: (5) for, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
(6) Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; and I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name: (7) ...more

GIDEON
As in the day of Midian
Isaiah 9:4, 5
The Jewish nation had been waiting for the Messiah, the Commander who would have liberated them from the power of oppressors. Such expectation could to be justified with a certain record in the book of prophet Isaiah. This record announced the birth of a child with the highly promising names: Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. This descendant would has sat down upon the throne of David, to establish the kingdom, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness as the government of the universal peace. This work would be supported with power of Jehovah of Hosts – Omnipotent God. This kingdom, once established, it would be eternal. (Isa. 9:6,7; Luke 1:31-33).
Before the establishment of the longed-for Kingdom, the promised Messiah would to overthrow the powers oppressing throughout the centuries all peoples by their despotic rules. These powers had to be broken "as in the day of Midian." Israelites, and among them even the Lord Jesus disciples, they supposed that future liberation from under the power oppressors concerned exclusively to their nation. (Luke. 24:21; Acts 1:6). In fact, this prophecy relates to liberation of the whole redeemed mankind. "The whole ...more

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The prayers of all the saints have been heard
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